White skirts

[Big and Bashful]

re: white.

I wear a "tea length white dress" regularly. Pure white polyester "linen" (the weave and texture look like linen). It is a pain to keep it, as it is long and flowing, off the car floor, the regular floors when bending or kneeling, and those miserable grimy seatbelts! I wash it frequently in the washing machine and dryer - Love that Polyester!

It is somewhat see-through, and I wear something under it, usually my black ankle length cassock skirt, or just black trousers/black socks/black shirt.

I have another white A-line kneelength skirt for knocking around the house doing "maid duty". It is treated like an apron, kinda dirty from kneeling on the floor, wiping dusty hands on, washing dishes, polishing brass, etc.

For casual general wear when socialising, white is fine.

Sorry, What does "tea length" mean?

[Since1982]

It is somewhat see-through, and I wear something under it, usually my black ankle length cassock skirt, or just black trousers/black socks/black shirt.

Umm, why wear a skirt at all if you're wearing trousers under it??? I don't know where exactly you are, but in America "Trousers" are the same as long pants or what used to be normal "menswear"...

As an aside, I wore my white twill mid calf straight skirt today with a green T- shirt and Birkenstock sandals.

[BrotherTailor]

Tea Length: somewhat variable descriptor. Usually indicated a dress hemline falling mid calf or thereabouts. Like a lot of things in women's apparel its use varies.

I do not wear the trousers if I'm wearing the black skirt under the white alb. I only wear the trousers when wearing the alb alone. This is because the alb is "mid calf" (actually lower than that - about 6 inches off the floor just above the ankle, but still exposes leg) The skirt comes to my shoes, hence no need for trousers to cover leg. This will not make sense I'm sure. An alb is a long loose and flowing garment white or ivory (from whence the name) usually hooded that is often belted or tied about the waist with a belt or cincture, and falls well below the knee. It looks and feels like a dress.

[Peter v]

It is somewhat see-through, and I wear something under it, usually my black ankle length cassock skirt, or just black trousers/black socks/black shirt.

Umm, why wear a skirt at all if you're wearing trousers under it??? I don't know where exactly you are, but in America "Trousers" are the same as long pants or what used to be normal "menswear"...

As an aside, I wore my white twill mid calf straight skirt today with a green T- shirt and Birkenstock sandals.

That outfit sounds really nice. With regards to the pants under, that is what leggings, capris are for. Not comparable with pants, yet still giving modesty coverage of the legs if felt needed.

Women wear tunics, ( extra long blouses / just a bit too short dresses ) which still give the styling of a dress, but are generally worn with pants under, or also leggings or capris. I am sure that men couldmalso adopt the same idea. only i would suggest not wearing pants, as that is just the thing we here are trying to avoid.

[BrotherTailor]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kjupw3EU0b8&NR=1

If you want a chuckle, check this link out. They (with the exception of the two novices) are wearing what seems to be black unhooded alb like garments with a scapular and veils, wimples etc as a nun would.

[crfriend]

It is somewhat see-through, and I wear something under it, usually my black ankle length cassock skirt, or just black trousers/black socks/black shirt.

Umm, why wear a skirt at all if you're wearing trousers under it??? I don't know where exactly you are, but in America "Trousers" are the same as long pants or what used to be normal "menswear"...

Well, since the term "pants" means something completely different in British English than American English, and "trousers" means the same thing, it makes sense to use the common word. For instance, I can happily opine, "Capris are pants." and have it work in both. (I do like mixing idioms!) Of course using the "splat" ("*", aka asterisk) in "tr*users" merely points up the fact that I hold the same opinion of trousers.

By the by, BrotherTailor -- it's good to hear your voice again. I hope life in the Canadian farmland is treating you well!

[knickerless]

There are similar posts regarding terminology in another post and I cansee where the confusion lies.

Perhaps it is best to use terms that can't be confused.

Trousers mean the same all over the world whereas

pants in the US mean trousers but in Uk and other places pants mean just that - mens underpants or even ladies knickers.

I had not heard the term pantys until recently but quickly gathered they meant tights as in the UK - but as you say tights in amercia I also discovered fairly recently are what we call leggings and what we call tights or the dutch call pantys the US call pantyhose. Not to be confused with panties which are a US term for ladies knickers. Whereas in some parts knickers are a term for golfing trousers.

Even funnier is the term pumps - in the UK pumps mean Plimsoles (as in the famous 2 Ronnies 4 candles sketch) whereas I also recently found out that in the US they use the term for high heeled shoes ( because they pump you up higher?)

United by a common language.

Nick

[SkirtDude]

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[AMM]

At least the folk epistemology [of "pumps] is that stagecoach drivers ....

I can't resist:

Epistomology = the study or theory of the nature, sources, and limits of knowledge (from yourdictionary.com)

Etymology =
1. the origin and development of a word, affix, phrase, etc.; the tracing of a word or other form back as far as possible in its own language and to its source in contemporary or earlier languages: in this dictionary etymologies are given in doubled brackets preceding the senses to which they apply;
2. the branch of linguistics dealing with word origin and development.
(Ibid.)

[JRMILLER]

Thanks professor, I can't resist either...

How about "episiotomy" [uh-pee-zee-ot-uh-mee], that kind of sounds like a word along the same lines, eh?

[Since1982]

Entomology...the study of bugs etc. (insects)

[AMM]

Entomology...the study of bugs etc. (insects)

Sounds like what I do for a living. (The English word for what I do is "computer programming.")

[SkirtDude]

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[Sasquatch]

If GW Bush's favorite philosopher is, by his own words, Jesus Christ (never knew he was a philosopher in addition to being Son of God), then I guess mine can be Will Rogers. On the topic of seldom-used words, Rogers said of "technocracy" that "Nothin' you can't spell will ever work!" Amen, Will!

Sasq